Pianist Jiaxin Min builds her first album around Beethoven's Sonata Op. 81a, 'Das Lebewohl' – a farewell to his friend and pupil Archduke Rudolph, whose three movements trace leave-taking, absence and joyful reunion. For Min the theme is personal: after a period away from music, the album marks her return to the stage and a reconnection with her younger self. Liszt's Ballade No. 2 in B minor, with its storms and lyrical calms, and Samuel Barber's Piano Sonata, Op. 26, crowned by its jazz-inflected fugue, are both works she first learned as a teenager and now revisits with fresh perspective. Recorded at Flagey in Brussels in April 2026 for Fuga Libera.